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It's been a long-standing principle of the web from the start: web scraping is legal and beneficial.
Now, Congress Representatives Laurel Lee, Valerie Foushee, and Gus Bilirakis want to ban it!
In the name of fighting AI, of course.
This could have serious implications for investigative journalism, internet research, artificial intelligence, and the free flow of information online.
Anonymous web scraping is VITAL for independent research because websites may behave differently when they know they are being investigated.
From the 18 October 2026 Bogosity Podcast.
How So-Called “Stealth Bot” Prohibitions Put Journalists in Danger https://recreatecoalition.org/a-note-from-recreate-how-so-called-stealth-bot-prohibitions-put-journalists-in-danger/
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